'Moon' looks at two sides of grief

9:03 PM,
May 10, 2013

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When Melinda Soto is murdered in a resort hotel room in Mexico, her best friends and son, Jeremy, shoulder a terrible grief that ties them together in ways they didn't expect and changes their lives.

When Melinda's murderer, a college student from a well-off family who returns to his parents' Seattle home a day after the murder, is named as a suspect and commits suicide, his mother and father's own grief and guilt take them in opposing directions.

How all those lives find balance and a measure of peace is the outcome of "Mending the Moon," (Tor, $24.99 hardcover) a new novel by Reno author and ...